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49 CFR 172.704 · for employees and small employers

Hazmat training for employees

Two people search this phrase: the employee who has been told to get trained, and the small employer who has to train a handful of people and has no training department. Both are in the right place — the course is the same, and the only thing that differs is how many seats you buy and who ends up holding the record.

Train one person — $49Train 5 or more

Self-paced · English or Español · certificate and 172.704(d) record included

Which one are you?

You are the employee

Told by your employer to get hazmat trained, or renewing.

  • One seat, $49, self-paced
  • English or Spanish — your choice, printed on the documents
  • You get the certificate and the 172.704(d) record to hand over
  • Verification code so your employer can confirm it independently
Enroll myself — $49 Everything the course covers →

You are the employer

Two to ten people to train, and nobody whose job this is.

  • Five seats for $220 — $44 each
  • Assign seats yourself, one language per person
  • Every certificate and record in one panel
  • Unused seats wait for your next hire
See team plans — from $220 What the rule puts on me as the employer →

Who counts as an employee here

The regulation does not care about job titles. It cares about functions.

Under 49 CFR 171.8 a hazmat employee is anyone — full-time, part-time, temporary or self-employed — who directly affects hazardous materials transportation safety: loading, unloading, handling, packing, marking, labelling, placarding, storing incidental to transportation, preparing shipping papers, being responsible for the safety of the transportation, or driving a vehicle carrying hazardous materials.

The ones that get missed.

Temporary and agency staff, supervisors who decide how something is packed, the person who signs the shipper's certification, and anyone handling customer returns that contain lithium batteries. The full list and the test behind it.

What each person gets

The courseDOT Hazmat Core Training — Warehouse & Ground Shipping (HTR-CORE-1.0), seven self-paced modules. Completion time varies by learner.
Coverage172.704(a)(1) general awareness, (a)(3) safety, (a)(4) security awareness in full, plus an (a)(2) function-specific baseline.
Assessment80% to pass, retakes at no extra cost, score printed on the certificate.
DocumentsCertificate of completion and a 49 CFR 172.704(d) training record, both PDF, both stating the language of instruction and the renewal date.
Whoever buys it, the employer keeps the record.

172.704(d) puts the record in the employer's hands, not the employee's. Our record PDF is written to be handed over: it carries the five required items for the training we delivered and leaves a block for the employer's own certification. The recordkeeping rules.

Common questions

My employer says I have to get this myself. Is that normal?
It happens, though under 49 CFR 172.702(b) the training duty sits with the hazmat employer, not with you. Employers of five or ten people frequently ask the employee to take the course and bring back the paperwork. That works in practice as long as the employer ends up holding the 172.704(d) record and signs the certification on it — which is why our record is built to be handed over.
I changed jobs. Does my old training still count?
Not automatically. Training is not a licence you carry between employers: each hazmat employer must train, test and certify its own hazmat employees, and hold its own record. A new employer may take your prior training into account, but they still have to satisfy themselves that it covers the functions you will perform for them and create their own record.
How do I know if I am a hazmat employee?
If you load, unload, handle, pack, mark, label, store incidental to transport, prepare shipping papers for, or decide the release of materials listed in the Hazardous Materials Table — or you drive a vehicle carrying them — you almost certainly are. The full test, applied to real jobs.
I am the owner and the only employee. Do I need this?
If you perform covered functions, yes: 49 CFR 171.8 expressly includes a self-employed person. A one-person operation is a hazmat employer and a hazmat employee at the same time, and needs both the training and the record.
Is $49 per person, or per company?
Per person, one seat. If you are training more than three or four people, the five-seat pack at $220 works out to $44 each and keeps every document in one place.

Start now, finish within the hour

One seat or a pack of five. English or Spanish. The paperwork comes with it either way.

One person — $49Five people — $220

More than ten, or a purchase order? hello@hazteamready.com.